The migration of the rural population today exerts a many-sided influence on the reproduction of labor power in the countryside, including skilled rural workers. The specific economic assessment of migration and its consequences depends on the specific situation, place, and time. In regions with...

The question of the essence and methods of establishing and calculating the capital investment effectiveness norm is one of the most important for the planning of the socialist national economy. Therefore, it was to be expected that the attempt by the present authors to estimate the numerical...

Manpower is very relevant to the balanced development of the national economy. Judging by existing trends, we can speak of a growing manpower requirement and shortage. Thus in 1970 the work force in the social economy increased by 37.8% compared with 1958, whereas the population of working age...

Side by side with radical change in the social and political sphere as a result of the transformation of socialism into the decisive force of world progress, at the present time profound changes are also taking place where the productive forces are concerned. Their source is the scientific and...

The structure of industry and of the entire national economy includes three elements: the correlation between subbranches and branches within the entire national economy (branch structure); territorial proportions within individual branches and subbranches, economic regions, and territorial...

The further development of the economy of collective farms and improvements in the material well-being of collective farmers depend to a decisive degree on the size of the farms' gross income, which, as we know, breaks down into the accumulation fund and the consumption fund.

The problem of small and medium-size cities is closely connected with the problem of further improving the territorial location of industry in the country. The problem is particularly urgent for those economic areas which have shown a trend toward the exhaustion of natural resources near major...

Improving the well-being of the working people and bringing about the more complete satisfaction of the population's needs are the main guideposts of the economic policy of the Soviet state in the Tenth Five-Year Plan and in the extended future. Of particular importance in this connection is the...

A broad program of technical improvements of production is now being carried out in the Soviet Union. One of the means of furthering technical progress is the comprehensive mechanization and automation of production which raises the technical facilities per worker, improves the organization of...